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Aquatic Beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Hy- Drophilidae) from Borujen and Lordegan (Chaharmahal and Bakh- Tiari Province, Iran)

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Aquatic Beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Hy- Drophilidae) from Borujen and Lordegan (Chaharmahal and Bakh- Tiari Province, Iran) Journal of Zoological Research | Volume 01 | Issue 02 | July 2019 Journal of Zoological Research http://ojs.bilpublishing.com/index.php/jzr ARTICLE Aquatic Beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Hy- drophilidae) From Borujen and Lordegan (Chaharmahal and Bakh- tiari Province, Iran) Maryam Taher* Mohammad Saeed Heydarnejad Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Basic Science, Shahrekord University, Shahrekord, Iran ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Article history This research was aimed to study aquatic coleopteran faunas of Borujen Received: 3 January 2020 and Lordegan (as two main towns of the Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province). Sampling was done at six stations between September 2017 Accepted: 16 January 2020 to July 2018. The aquatic Coleoptera were identified to the species level Published Online: 31 March 2020 with the help of keys and related references. Identification of samples was based on morphological characteristics such as taxonomic characters Keywords: and external genitalia with appropriate entomological reference books Aquatic coleoptera and authors. A total of 12 species belonging to 11 genera and 4 families were identified. The greatest number of species identified were found in Chaharmahal and bakhtiari the family Dytiscidae Leach, 1815 and the least number in the family Hy- Borujen and lordegan drophilidae Latreille, 1802. Two species of Agabus Leach, 1817 namely, Dytiscidae Agabus conspersus Marsham, 1802 and Agabus bipustulatus Linnaeus, 1767 were the most abundant insects. Agabus 1. Introduction 4,000 described species is the most species family of water beetles which occur in virtually any freshwater quatic Coleoptera known as water beetles, with habitat around the world [14]. The Hydrophilidae is the more than 13,000 described species, is one of second most abundant family which are generally found the most abundant aquatic insects [19]. They A in habitats of small shallow water bodies and they occu- play an important role in freshwater ecosystems and py in most kinds of stagnant waters, but also commonly are considered as a suitable bioindicator [3]. Since the inhabit streams, rivers, and seepage [4]. maintenance of biological diversity (or biodiversity)- as a measure of the variety of all organisms- is one of There is Little information about fauna of aquatic [8-12] the main goals of conservation for sustainable use of insects of Iran. For instance, studied the aquatic bee- resources and animal survival, the identification and as- tle fauna of Fars, Guilan, Mazandaran and Khuzestan [16] sessment of animal habitats are considered topics to be provinces. Ostovan and Niakan, studied the diversity, a priority for research. In this regard, aquatic Coleoptera abundance, and biology of aquatic insects, including the as biodiversity indicators in freshwater ecosystems are aquatic beetles in Fars province. The fauna of diving bee- of great importance [18]. The Dytiscidae with more than tles was studied in Markazi province by Vafaei et al., [20]. *Corresponding Author: Maryam Taher, Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Basic Science, Shahrekord University, Shahrekord, Iran; Email: [email protected] Distributed under creative commons license 4.0 DOI: https://doi.org/10.30564/jzr.v1i2.1625 13 Journal of Zoological Research | Volume 01 | Issue 02 | July 2019 The other most important publications on Iranian aquatic Station 6: Sendegan Spring, substrate: muddy; 1739 m beetles are: Atamehr and Alaei [1], Mousavi et al. [15], Dar- a.s.l.; near Sendegan, 60 Km from the town of Lordegan; ilmaz et al. [2], Samin et al. [17], and Van Vondel et al., [21]. 3115’35”N 5117’00” E; 29. IV. 2018. Apart from a study conducted by Heydarnejad [7] on aquat- ic coleopteran of Choghakhor in 2010, no other study has not been done in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province so far. Thus, this study aimed to study aquatic coleopteran faunas of Borujen and Lordegan, Chaharmahl and Bakh- tiari province, Iran. 2. Materials and Description of Sampling Sta- tion Chaharmahl and Bakhtiari, one of the 31 Provinces of Iran, lies in the southwestern part of the country. Its capital is Shahrekord surrounded by the famous Zakros mountains. Due to the high mountainous nature, which is in the path of the wet winds of the Mediterranean sys- tems, which makes these systems rise and discharge, the province has relatively good rainfall to the extent that this region, with only one percent of Iran's construction, is ten percent the country has water resources (Figure Figure 1. Location of Chaharmahl & Bakhtiari province 1). Between September 2017 to July 2018 a field trip within Iran to Borujen and Lordegan (as two main towns of the province) was carried out by M.Taher. During this trip 6 sampling stations were examined that are listed below and presented on the map (Figure 2). The results are based on the study of 51 adults of Dytiscidae, 20 adults of Haliplidae, 17 adults of Noteridae, and 4 adults of Hydrophilidae. Identification of samples was based on morphological characteristics such as external taxonom- ic characters and external male genitalia with appropri- ate entomological reference books and authors [5,6,13,22]. All samples were deposited in the Zoological Museum, Shahrekord University (ZMSU). Station 1: Zaghi River, substrate: muddy; 2136 m a.s.l.; near Dehno, 20 Km from the town of Borujen; 3202’54” N 5106’35” E; 23. IV. 2018, 16. V. 2018 Station 2: Kalbibak River, substrate: clay with dense aquatic vegetation; 2278 m a.s.l.; near Boldaji, 35 Km from the town of Borujen; 3153’40” N 5153’16” E; 23. IV. 2018, Figure 2. Location of 6 stations within Chaharmahl & Station 3: Gandoman Marsh, substrate: muddy with Bakhtiari dense aquatic vegetation; 2219 m a.s.l.; near Gandoman, ’ ” ’ ” 15 Km from the town of Borujen; 3151 05 N 5105 34 E; 3. Results 16. III. 2018, 16. V. 2018. Station 4: Bizhgerd Spring, substrate: muddy; 2216 m In this research totally 12 species of aquatic beetles from a.s.l.; near Bizhgerd, 45 Km from the town of Borujen; the families Dytiscidae, Haliplidae, Hydrophilidae, and 3146’55”N 5111’35” E; 16. III. 2018, 16. V. 2018. Noteridae were collected and identified from some aquatic Station 5: Barm malkhalife Spring, substrate: rubber ecosystems in Borujen and Lordegan. The list of species is cement; 1744 m a.s.l.; near malkhalife, 55 Km from the given as a checklist of the species and a list of the stations town of Lordegan; 3117’21”N 5115’58” E; 29. IV. 2018. with the species collected. 14 Distributed under creative commons license 4.0 DOI: https://doi.org/10.30564/jzr.v1i2.1625 Journal of Zoological Research | Volume 01 | Issue 02 | July 2019 Table 1. List of a water beetles recorded from Borujen showed that Agabus conspersus and Agabus bipustulatus and Lordegan Species recorded from Chaharmahal and species were found in half of the stations where the sam- Bakhtiari province for the first time are indicated by an ples were obtained. According to the results, Gandoman asterisk (*) Marsh station is considered with the highest species Species Station richness. Among the total number of specimens collected respectively Laccophilus hyalinus, Agabus conspersus, Dytiscidae Agabus bipustulatus, Hydroporus inscitus, Peltodytes Dytiscus persicus Wehncke, 1876 3 caesus were dominant species. This indicates that the Laccophilus hyalinus (De Geer, 1774) 3,5 abundance of these species was more than 5% of the total * Agabus conspersus (Marsham, 1802) 1,4 number of specimens. Colymbetes fuscus, Nebrioporus Agabus bipustulatus (Linnaeus, 1767) 3,1,6 airumlus, Hydrobius fuscipes, which contain 2 to 5% of Nebrioporus airumlus* (Kolenati, 1845) 4 all specimens, were semi-dominant species, but Dytiscus Hydroglyphus geminus* (Fabricius, 1792) 1,5 persicus, Hydroglyphus geminus, Haliplus obliquus which Hydroporus inscitus* Sharp, 1882 4 their abundance was less than 2% of the total number of [10] Haliplidae specimens, were rare species . Peltodytes caesus *(Duftschmid,1805) 3 5. Conclusion Haliplus obliquus* (Fabricius, 1787) 3 Hydrophilidae This study, which was conducted to investigate aquatic Hydrobius fuscipes* (Linnaeus, 1758) 5 coleopteran faunas of Borujen and Lordegan, Chaharmahl Noteridae & Bakhtiari province, Iran, showed that Most species be- Noterus clavicornis* (De Geer,1774) 2 long to the family Dytiscidae and the least to the family Hydrophilidae. Of the 12 species identified in this study, According to this checklist, 12 species of aquatic beetle 11 species were reported for the first time in this province. are currently known from Borujen and Lordegan: Dytisci- Two species of Agabus with the names Agabus conspersus dae - eight species, Haliplidae - two species, Hydrophili- and Agabus bipustulatus were the most abundant speci- dae - one species and Noteridae -one species. mens. List of stations with collected species Station 1 :Dytiscidae: Agabus conspersus, Agabus bi- Acknowledgments pustulatus, Hydroglyphus geminus Station 2 :Noteridae: Noterus clavicornis A lot of thanks are due to Dr. Hans Fery (Berlin), Dr. Station 3 :Dytiscidae: Dytiscus persicus, Laccophilus Robert Angus (England), Dr. Bernhard Von Vondel (Po- hyalinus, Colymbetes fuscus, Agabus bipustulatus; Halip- land) and Dr. Anders Nilsson (Sweden) for their kind help lidae: Peltodytes caesus, Haliplus obliquus in identification of species and sending papers. The re- Station 4 : Dytiscidae: Agabus conspersus, Nebriopo- search was supported by Shahrekord University. rus airumlus, Hydroporus inscitus References Station 5 :Dytiscidae: Laccophilus hyalinus,
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